Sen. Barbara Boxer - Why She Voted No On Iraq Funding

Funding the war is supporting the war. Thank you all in congress who voted against giving the Bush Administration a blank check for this lied our way into war.

Please support the elected and appointed officials who are demanding the end of war in Iraq and other places.

From Senator Barbara Boxer:

"Yesterday, I voted "No" on the Iraq war funding bill. I want to share with you the remarks I made on the Senate floor.

Senator Boxer's Floor SpeechMay 24, 2007

In March and in April I voted for emergency spending legislation that would have fully funded our troops in Iraq, but also changed their mission to a sound one. That mission would have taken our troops out of the middle of a civil war, and put them into a support role, training Iraqi soldiers and police, fighting al Qaeda, and protecting our troops.

The President will not agree to that.

As a matter of fact, the President won't agree to any change in strategy in Iraq, and that is more than a shame for the American people; it is a tragedy.

It doesn't seem to matter how many Americans die in Iraq, how many funerals we have here at home, or what the American people think. The President won't budge.

This new bill on Iraq keeps the status quo. With a few frills around the outside, a few reports, a few words about benchmarks. While our troops die.

I understand why this particular legislation is before us today. It's because this President wants to continue his one man show in Iraq. The President doesn't respect this Congress or the American people when it comes to Iraq. He wants to brush us all off like some annoying spot on his jacket.

We have lost 3,427 American soldiers in Iraq. Of those, 731 (21%) have been from California or based in California. There are 25,549 American soldiers wounded.

And today, after several days of worrying and praying, we received the tragic news of the death of Private Joseph J. Anzack JR., 20 years old, of Torrance, California, who was abducted during a deadly ambush south of Baghdad almost two weeks ago.

One member of his platoon, Spc. Daniel Seitz, summed it up this way to the Associated Press: "It just angers me that it's just another friend I've got to lose and deal with, because I've already lost 13 friends since I've been here, and I don't know if I can take any more of this."

And he shouldn't have to. But with this bill, he will.

The first half of this year has already been deadlier than any six-month period since the war began more than four years ago.

In this month alone, 83 U.S. Service members have already been killed in Iraq.

Let me be clear, there are many things in this bill that I strongly support--many provisions that I actually fought for, for our troops, for our veterans, for our farmers, and for the victims of Hurricane Katrina--but I must take a stand against this Iraq war, and therefore I will vote no on this emergency spending bill.

Together, we will end this war. We may not have won yesterday's vote, and I'm very disappointed that we didn't, but with your help, that day is coming soon.

In Friendship,

Barbara BoxerU.S. Senator

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'War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate."

Bodiculous (Bogus and Ridiculous) Bush

Crimes as big as the president and his crew have done require words greater than what is in the dictionary. So I am compelled to put this word out there. The president is the poster child.

The word "bodiculous" is not in the dictionary so I'll define it. When something is both bogus and ridiculous it's bodiculous.

Bogus is the fact that both the 2000 and the 2004 elections were stolen. Bush and his band of Nazis were not elected but selected by a source other than the American People. What the !@#$. Al Gore and John Kerry both won the elections by the Will of the People. I still don't understand in truth why that man is even in the White House. If he wasn't there we'd have a full scale global warming strategy in place and active. Instead we get higher toxic energy prices and melting polar ice caps. How’s the weather by you?

Ridiculous is the current administration's style: 9/11 was an inside job, Katrina's lack of response, war for oil, the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq and other places, not counting the unemployed as proof of low unemployment, most children being left behind in their education, poisoned food supply, global warming and keeping the solution (hemp) illegal, chemtrails ...it’s a long list and I’m sure there’s more that we don’t even have a clue about, yet.

The Bush presidency is the most bodiculous thing that has ever happen in this country. He's taken America from the land of the free and the home of the brave to the land of the watched and the home of the scared. We've got to turn this around.

Bush needs to quit or be impeached. Like Nixon before him, he should do it before he's arrested for treason. Maybe he can go with his friends at Halliburton. I'm sure they have room for the best little oil pimp from Texas. He's made them so much money while not caring who had to die for them to get paid. He even lied in the State Of The Union address.

George Bush is not only the worst president ever, he is the most bodiculous person in the world.

What do you think?